Settlement (Croatia)
Settlements in Croatia,inCroatiannaselje(pl.naselja) are the third-level spatial division of the country,[1][2]and usually indicate existing or formerhuman settlement.EachCroatian city or town(grad,pl.gradovi) ormunicipality(općina,pl.općine) consists of one or more settlements. A settlement can be part of only one second-level spatial division, whose territory is the sum of exclusive settlement territories.[3]Settlements are not necessarilyincorporated places,[citation needed]as second-levellocal authorities(towns and municipalities), known asjedinice lokalne samouprave,delegate some of their functions to so-calledjedinice mjesne samouprave(gradski kotar,gradska četvrt,orpodručje mjesnog odbora).[1]
TheCroatian Bureau of Statisticspublishes their decennial census data on the basis of official settlement (naselje) data from the Register of Spatial Units by the State Geodetic Administration.[4]As of 2023[update],there are 6 757 settlements in Croatia.[1]
Rural individual settlements are usually referred to asselo(village;pl.sela). Municipalities (or communes) in Croatia comprise one or more either urban or rural settlements. A city usually includes an eponymous large settlement and several urban, suburban or rural settlements. A municipality is usually named by the largest or most urban settlement and typically includes several rural settlements. TheConstitution of Croatiaallows anaseljeor a part thereof to form some form oflocal government.[5]This form of local government is typically used to subdivide larger municipalities and cities; municipality may comprise several units namedmjesni odbor(local committee/board), a city usually consists of several units (which may comprise one or more settlements) namedgradski kotar/gradska četvrt(city districtorborough;pl.gradski kotari/gradske četvrti), and/ormjesni odbor(local committee/board;pl.mjesni odbori).
Historically, the methodology of delineating settlements in Croatia changed substantially in the first decade afterWorld War II,when the number of settlements was recorded at 12,044 in the 1948 census, but then reduced to 6,704 in the 1953 census. At the time, the definition of a settlement was an inhabited place with a separate name, an independent settlement was a settlement that had a distinct territory, and a non-independent one was one that was inside another one's territory. Independent ones therefore included cities, towns,market towns,villages and places where people were settled or colonized.[6]
See also
[edit]- Census-designated place
- Cadastral municipality(katastarska općina)
- Kotar (subdivision)
References
[edit]- ^abcRegister of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia.WikidataQ119585703.
- ^"Zakon o područjima županija, gradova i općina u Republici Hrvatskoj".Narodne novine(in Croatian).Retrieved2023-10-02.
- ^"Zakon o naseljima".zakon.hr(in Croatian).Retrieved2023-10-02.
- ^"Notes on Methodology".Croatian Bureau of Statistics.Retrieved2015-06-13.
- ^ "Mjesna, lokalna i područna (regionalna) samouprava".Ustav Republike Hrvatske(in Croatian).Croatian Parliament.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-02-15.Retrieved2012-01-30.
- ^Lončarić, Mijo (1977)."Imenovanja i preimenovanja naseljenih mjesta".Jezik(in Croatian).25(4): 98.